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Leslie L. Heap tells police of Gretchen Wahlen's threatening letters, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: Leslie L. Heap tells police of Gretchen Wahlen's threatening letters, Los Angeles, 1936
Date Created and/or Issued: March 10, 1936
1936-03-10
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Gretchen Wahlen, heir to a $50,000 estate, has been missing since last Sunday - her attorney Leslie Heap relates to police the threatening letters Mrs. Wahlen had been receiving from an unknown sender.
Photograph appears with the article, "Fear Felt For Widow," Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar 1936: A12.
Heap sits with an open folder of documents and envelopes in his lap.
Text from newspaper caption: Leslie L. Heap, attorney for Mrs. Gretchen Wahlen, missing widow. He disclosed she had received threatening letters.
Handwritten on negative: Atty Leslie L. Heap 3/10/36
Text from negative sleeve: 3914 - Leslie L. Heap, atty Letters in Grace C Wahlen Story 3/10/36 [stamped:] Mar 12 1936
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: uclamss_1429_12931
ark:/21198/zz002hn1k3
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Lawyers--California--Los Angeles
Bookcases--California--Los Angeles
Heap, Leslie L., b. 1898 or 99-1964
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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